October, 2008

Time for a little bit of a teaser post... We've been working on the next Power Tools release for Team Foundation Server 2008 for a while now. I think I mentioned before that we really wanted to make this next release a "major" Power Tools...

One of our new "killer" features coming in our TFS 2010 (Rosario) release is what we call "Gated Checkin". It is a feature that enables you validate checkins on a separate build machine before the checkin happens. I think of it as an evolution of continuous...

Every month we take stock of how TFS adoption is going. I thought I'd share some of the results with you this month. Overall, it is going strong but we are starting to see a leveling off in the number of regular users at about 15,000. ...

Mike Fourie has recently published a new CodePlex project for MSBuild extensions. It is the successor for the FreeToDev MSBuild Extensions and is probably the most comprehensive library available. If you are looking for MSBuild tasks or are interested...

Yesterday we released a CTP for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. This CTP also includes the Visual Studio Team System "Rosario" features and signals the end of separate "Rosario" CTPs. From here on, Rosario will only be...

Unfortunately, TFS 2008 SP1 had a bug that caused checkin notifications to fail when you've used the new tfsadminutil configureconnections options to configure the URL to your Team System Web Access site in order to get richer links in email notifications...

A few weeks ago, I blogged about our upcoming Power Tools release and the really cool new features that are in it. It's a big enough release that we decided getting some external feedback before releasing it was a good idea. So about 2 weeks ago we released...

Over the next couple of months we are publishing a series of documents providing guidance for doing Sharepoint 3.0 & MOSS 2007 development with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System. Over the past year, we've seen increasing interest in guidance...

We have 12 talks on Team System at the PDC this year. They include: TL47 Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010 TL52 Team Foundation Server 2010: Cool New Features TL03 Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Software Diagnostics and Quality...

A while back I promised to blog about how to configure TFS with fully qualified domain names (particularly in light of changes in .NET 3.5 SP1). Buck beat me to it so I'll just reference his post and you can read it to learn everything you need to do...

This week we introduced a new website and yet another way to collaborate with the community around the future of our Software. This new initiative is called DevLabs . The goal of it is to create a forum where we can share with you projects that are still...

Yesterday Gert announced that the release candidate for Database Edition that enables support for SQL 2008 is now available. Read more about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/archive/2008/10/27/the-gdr-rc-is-here.aspx Brian

We've just released a new CTP for the GDR update of the Team System Database Edition product that adds support for SQLServer 2008. This is the last CTP and the team is really looking for your feedback to ensure that they've gotten it right. ...

We announced last week that we would be providing "two for the price of one" by combining the Team System Development Edition and Team System Database Edition. The offer went into effect yesterday and more details are coming out now. ...